My youth is rushing back at light speed. I can hardly believe my luck! The BBC has re-launched a version of the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy text-based adventure game for all and sundry to experience again in all its black-on-white glory. Now I can re-live those fabulously frustrating moments of being stuck in the hold with a cantankerous Vogon, a syntax error at every turn. "I don't know the word 'do'," says a logical machine. Oh glee!
The game on the above link is for the BBC's re-creation, but if you'd like to play your way through the original, head here to download it.
There was something so wonderous about these early interactive entertainments, and sometimes I think that the onset of graphics ruined a really fun computing experience, where I was able to imagine the angry goblin in the underground dungeon shaking his fist and advancing at me menacingly before the lights went out. I can't remember the last time I cried at a contemporary computer game (not out of frustration, that is), but I do being really taken with some of these interactive stories.
Where can I find others? Why are they simply so much better than, say, Jak II?
